As part of the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC), the National Coordinating Center for Communications (NCC) continuously monitors national and international incidents and events that may impact emergency communications. Incidents include not only acts of terrorism, but also natural events such as tornadoes, floods, hurricanes and earthquakes. In cases of emergency, NCC Watch leads emergency communications response and recovery efforts under Emergency Support Function #2 of the National Response Framework.
With much of the nation’s cyber infrastructure tied into communications, the NCC Watch is also a vital partner to the national cybersecurity effort. The NCC works with both the U.S. Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT) and the Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) to monitor and resolve issues impacting cyber and communications during an emergency.
NCC Watch cannot perform its vital mission without the cooperation and expertise of its federal and private sector partners. It was the private sector that first recommended the establishment of a centralized government-industry coordination center following the divestiture of AT&T in the early 1980s. Today, 11 federal government agencies and over 60 private sector communications and information technology companies routinely share critical communications information and advice in a trusted environment to support the NCC’s national security/emergency preparedness communications mission.
To fulfill the responsibilities regarding National Security and Emergency Preparedness (NS/EP) communications outlined in Executive Order 13618, the NCC cultivates its long-standing relationships with private industry members of the Communications Information Sharing and Analysis Center and government partners. These partnerships facilitate the exchange of vulnerability, threat, intrusion, and anomaly information amongst government and industry communications participants and are critical to the sustainment of NS/EP communications and accomplishing the Emergency Support Function #2 mission.
NCC Industry Representatives
Akamai Alaska Communications Altice USA Amazon Web Services American Cable Association Americom APCO International Artel, LLC AT&T Avaya Blackberry Boeing CableLabs CenturyLink Charter Communications Cincinnati Bell Cisco Cloudflare Comcast Cable Competitive Carriers Association Comptel Compunetix Comtech Telecommunications Consolidated Communications | Cox Communications Computer Sciences Corporation Crown Castle Fiber CTIA Earthlink EutelsatAmerica Frontier Communications GlobaFone Globalstar Harris Caprock HP Enterprise Service, LLC Hughes Network Systems INdigital Telecom Inmarsat Intelsat Internap Juniper Networks Leidos LightSquared Lockheed Martin Motorola Mobility National Association of Broadcasters National Cable & Telecommunications Association National Emergency Numbers Association
| Neustar Nokia Northrop Grumman NSight NTCA Pioneer Telephone Cooperative, Inc Qualcomm Raytheon SES World Skies Satellite Industry Association Sprint TE Subcom TelePacific Communications Telecommunications Industry Association T-Mobile US Cellular US Telecom Association Verisign Verizon Vonage West Safety Services Windstream |
NCC Federal Participants | ||
Department of State Department of Defense Department of Commerce Department of Energy | Department of Interior Department of Justice Department of Homeland Security | Federal Communications Commission Federal Emergency Management Agency Federal Reserve Board General Services Administration |